As this year’s Constitution Day on May 3 rolls around, we remain firmly committed to reject any form of violent attacks against freedom of speech and expression.
Police have concluded their investigation into a knife attack last November on Japanese sociologist Shinji Miyadai at a university campus in Tokyo, referring the case of the deceased suspect to prosecutors without determining a motive. Minoru Kuramitsu, 41, was posthumously referred to prosecutors on suspicion of attempted murder for the…
Police have identified a 41-year-old man who committed suicide in December through DNA as the suspect who repeatedly stabbed sociologist Shinji Miyadai on a Tokyo university campus in November.
Miyadai, a 63-year-old academic known for books about socio-economic issues, was seriously wounded in the November attack but has since been released from hospital.